VacationSelector

Alicante or Tampa?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteTampa
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 2 points.2
AlicanteTampa
Score7775
Swim season months58
Beaches 10 km3310
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteTampa
Score6654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3131
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 15 points.15
AlicanteTampa
Score4227
Museums within 10 km1413
Museums within 2 km of centre1110
Share of museums within 2 km %7977
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteTampa
Score5139
Drinking venues within 4 km591324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8370
Nightclubs within 4 km5426
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteTampa
Score4030
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5972
Park area within 2 km60 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteTampa
Score4230
Tourist attractions within 2 km133
Park area within 2 km60 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Alicante leads by 5 points.5
AlicanteTampa
Score2621
Notable places within 2 km1813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteTampa
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteTampa
Score8775
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months111
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteTampa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
€98-122
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
€178-205
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
EdinburghEDI
3 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteTampa
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m30 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteTampa
City population366,221384,959
People per km²1,819848
Museums within 10 km86
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5247
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months8 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.